Subject: Re: quick break insertion (was Re: Commit: some of Jared's UI suggestions)
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 19:16:20 CDT
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
>
> If you want to optimize the UI for ultra-rapid access to very commonly-used
> operations (such as line and page breaks), that's a logical place for
> keybindings. That's why most of those had already been committed by October
> 1998 (rev 1.3), with simple section breaks getting added as "late" as
> February 1999 (rev. 1.20):
>
>
> http://www.abisource.com/bonsai/cvslog.cgi?file=/abi/src/wp/ap/xp/ap_LB_Defa
> ult.cpp
>
> Note that only the more complicated variants of section breaks don't have
> keybindings already -- but that makes sense for two reasons:
>
> 1. Unless you're developing or testing the feature, those variants are
> *very* rarely used.
>
> 2. The differences between them are subtle enough that they *beg* to be
> explained, and a dialog is a much easier place to get help in a UI than some
> pull-right menu.
>
> In short, all we need to do here is follow standard GUI design practices:
>
> - use the keyboard for quick access to high-frequency tasks
> - use dialogs for easy discovery & explanation of the same functionality
>
> Does that make sense?
>
Sure. However we need to make sure the kyebindings are visible to the
user. I guess they should be displayed in the break dialog somehow so
users can discover them as they use the program. Training by using :-)
Cheers
Martin
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